Small Quotes - page 3

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. (Neil Armstrong)
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. View quote
Margaret Atwood
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. View quote
E. M. Forster
It's a small world but I wouldn't want to paint it. View quote
Steven Wright
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. View quote
Xun Zi
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little". View quote
Dale Carnegie
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. (Dale Carnegie)
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters. View quote
Beryl Bainbridge
I have a big heart and a small brain. View quote
Ville Valo
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. View quote
Margaret Cho
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you. View quote
George Harrison
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. (Samuel Richardson)
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. View quote
Vernor Vinge
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson